24 January 2014

Cerb is a fast and flexible Web-based platform for business collaboration and automation. It helps you remember anything about anyone, collaborate from anywhere, deftly reply to a flood of email, automate, stay informed, capture feedback, track time, flag opportunities, manage tasks, share expert knowledge, and otherwise execute efficiently.

Release Notes: This maintenance update includes 6 improvements. It fixes a bug where scheduled behaviors from deleted Virtual Attendants remained in the queue. It fixes an issue where new tickets created from the UI didn't relay attachments. It fixes an issue where a ticket merge failed to complete if any tickets in the chooser were peeked at. It fixes an issue with the 'Continue replying' button when multiple workers replied to the same ticket simultaneously. It adds a relative time to the 'Date:' header on the ticket peek popup. It fixes an issue with numeric ticket masks that prevented their profiles from displaying.

Aspose.OCR for Java is a character recognition component that allows developers to add OCR functionality in their Java Web applications, Web services, and Windows applications. It provides a simple set of classes for controlling character recognition tasks. It helps developers to work with image files from within their Java applications. It allows developers to extract text from images and read font and style information quickly, saving time and effort involved in developing an OCR solution from scratch.

Release Notes: This release introduces Optical Mark Recognition (OMR). The Aspose.OMR package can be used to recognize different marked elements in a scanned image. Programmers can now load templates and images and extract data based on these. The Aspose.OMR package provides capabilities to extract data from a scanned image for the OMR elements like Choice box, Check box, Grid, Barcode, and OCR text. The BarcodeElement class is now available in the com.aspose.omr package, which can be used to recognize a barcode from a scanned image. During the document recognition process, you may also extract an additional element – text.

QXmlEdit is a simple XML editor. Its main features are unusual data visualization modes, nice XML manipulation and presentation, and multi-platform support. It can split very big XML files into fragments, can compare XML files, and has a graphical XSD viewer.

FLOM is a distributed lock manager that can be used to avoid shell tricks and safely execute different tasks that cannot run at the same time. It manages process serialization in the same way nice manages process prioritization. It implements the same lock mode semantic proposed by VMS DLM to allow non-trivial command serialization use cases. The goal is to "just work"; everything implemented must be useful and easy to use (configuration is reduced to a bare minimum). It works inside a single system or in a network of IP connected systems.

BitWrk is creating a marketplace where participants can buy or sell computing power like stocks in a stock exchange, using Bitcoin as currency. The client software can be integrated with existing, compute-intensive applications (e.g. rendering software), creating a big boost by harnessing the combined computing power of the BitWrk network. Sellers earn money by putting their hardware to work, offering an alternative to Bitcoin mining.

Release Notes: This release adds experimental support for Blender. "Cycles" rendering tasks can be dispatched, tile by tile, to the BitWrk service, resulting in accelerated render times.

The Epoch Init System is an init system for Linux designed with ease of configuration and non-intrusiveness in mind. It has no external dependencies besides libc and pthreads on a Linux 2.6+ system, though a working /bin/sh is suggested. It's suitable for large and small Linux distributions, but was designed with a focus on smaller Linux systems. It's features include a log system capable of recording boot events before the filesystem is made writable, ASCII runlevels, a convenient, single configuration file setup, automatic hostname setting at boot, automatic virtual filesystem mounting (think /proc), PID file support, stuck job killing during bootup and shutdown, integrated color greeting banner support, and automatic service restart support, to keep vital services running at all times.

Release Notes: General accepted rules for release candidates were broken to bring these important-but-neglected changes to the first stable version: stderr/stdout redirection; a new format for status reports; user and group settings; and pivot_root support. The NOWAIT option is back, but stable this time, as is the FORK option and much more.

Dosage is designed to keep a local copy of specific Web comics and other picture-based content such as Picture of the Day sites. With the dosage command line, script you can get the latest strip of a Web comic, catch up to the last strip downloaded, or download a strip for a particular date/index (if the comic's site layout makes this possible).

isort automatically sorts and sections Python imports. It can turn even the most messy import structure into nice clean sections without duplicates. It provides a command line utility, Python library, and Kate plugin for convenient use.

Release Notes: This release adds support for running recursively, dynamic settings lookup, enabling kate-plugin to correctly determine settings when sorting (independent of where it's started), and support for Windows.

gMTP is a simple graphical MTP based device client for Unix and Unix-like systems. It supports all MTP based devices, including MP3 players, media players, tablets, and mobile phones.

Release Notes: This release adds a new option to treat all media as regular files (Android enhancement),
fixes a crash on deleting the last playlist (GTK3),
corrects an issue with a Find operation when using an Alternate Access Method and Android devices.
Backend maintenance items include a shift to git from cvs,
an updated website (HTML5 + CSS3),
and a change to using autotools for building instead of a custom Makefile.
Further testing has been done, with the clang,
gcc, and Solaris studio compilers and more platforms tested.

Freedomotic is an open, flexible, scalable, mashup-oriented software system which can interact with well-known standard building automation protocols and with "do-it-yourself" solutions. It treats the Web, social networks, and frontends just like any other sensor or actuator in your automation system. For example, you can tweet your washing machine to start the washing cycle. Freedomotic leverages modern enterprise integration patterns and distributed computing architectures, along with cross-language APIs for extensions.

HGL is a compiler/interpreter suite for developing images. It features its own simple but powerful language, Lua integration, output in various formats as well as runtime input handled by plugins, and easy integration into various environments like Web servers or graphical applications. The input is taken from a source file, which has to be compiled for quick and frequent access by the interpreter. An interpreter then runs the compiled files, takes input from custom plugins (if neccessary), and outputs its result via custom plugins.

Release Notes: This release lets the netpbm image output plugin write both PPM and PAM and increases the performance of the compiler.

Pride combines bash scripts, zenity, ant, ImageMagick, and the Android tools to create a fast and simple POSIX alternative for Android development. It provides all the basic commands (clean, build, release, etc.) of other Android IDEs. But it is primarily a robust and simple injection framework. Injections from methods to clusters of activities are easily created from existing code and can then be injected into any project. Pride can also be used to batch build, load, or release multiple projects and can update class and resource files among projects that use the same objects or resources.

Release Notes: In creating a new project, the project plate dialog has been removed. This dialog is still used by the project import system for converting eclipse projects, but it is no longer needed unless you are altering pride itself. The dialog can then be restored with PRIDEDEV="true" in the pride.rc. Also, a progress dialog has been added to the project new script.

AFD is a program to automatically distribute files either locally or to remote hosts. The files are distributed by using FTP or SMTP, and can be sent in parallel and with priority. It provides a GUI to monitor and control the distribution and extensive logging of all activities.

Release Notes: Under Linux,
inotify is now supported,
making detection of new data quicker.
With the help of many different static code checkers, many old bugs where removed.
Support for the FTP MLST command (RFC 3659) has been added.
All important system data are now stored in an ASCII text file,
making the conversion of the internal database much less painful.
Important numerical configuration values can now be supplied via configure.

wro4j is a project that will help you to easily improve your Web application page loading time. It can help you to keep your static resources (JavaScript and CSS) well organized, merge and minify them at run-time (using a simple filter) or build-time (using a Maven plugin), and has several features you may find useful when dealing with Web resources.

Release Notes: This release makes ResourceWatcher check for changes asynchronously,
upgrades less4j, jshint, and handlebars dependencies,
and adds other bugfixes and small improvements.

CreditAnalytics is a financial fixed-income credit analytics, credit risk, bond analytics, and bond risk library, developed with a special focus towards the needs of the credit trading and bond trading community (CDS, CDX, CDO, and bonds of all types and variants).

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is intended for people people who write and want their writing to look great without tinkering with formatting details, font attributes, or page boundaries. On screen, it looks like any word processor, but it uses the TeX engine for printed output and producing richly cross-referenced PDFs. It is stable and fully featured.

Release Notes: LyX 2.0.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make the stable version even more reliable and
stable.
It fixes a number of bugs and makes a number of improvements.
The most important bug was #8854,
which could lead to file corruption in certain cases and
(more often) would lead to errors in generated files (e.g., PDFs).

c++-gtk-utils is a lightweight library containing a number of classes and functions for programming GTK+ programs using C++ in POSIX environments where the user does not want to use a full-on wrapper such as gtkmm or wxWidgets. It provides classes for managing the lifetimes of GTK+ widgets and windows that will make GTK+ exception safe, functions to make single instance programs where restarting will bring up the existing instance, smart pointer classes for memory management, thread-safe signal/slot classes with automatic disconnection, classes for using std iostreams with files opened with Unix file descriptors, functions for connecting a callback object and a Unix file descriptor to the main loop with provision for automatic disconnection, classes and functions for inter-thread communication, some convenience pthread wrapper classes., a class encapsulating anonymous Unix pipes, a class to reassemble UTF-8 sent over pipes and sockets, and classes for printing Postscript files and plain text using the GTK+ print system.

Release Notes: An Extension::exec() function has been added to run guile scheme extensions in C++ programs. New Thread::TaskManager methods have been added to run std::packaged_task objects asynchronously. Other minor improvements have been made.

OAQL Server allows you to connect, on all your networks, all your Java applications and all your SQL/NoSQL databases (from different suppliers), as if you had a single application/database in an oriented architecture environment.

Release Notes: The editor was improved. Many bugs were fixed. More functions were added (compress, mail, etc.).

lm_sensors provides essential tools for monitoring
the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux
systems with hardware monitoring devices. It
contains a library for sensors access
(libsensors), a command-line tool for sensor
reporting (sensors), and a daemon (sensord). It
also contains scripts for sensor hardware
identification and fan speed control.

Release Notes: The per-sensor-type limit was raised to support recent Intel processors. New devices were added to sensors-detect, support for build-in drivers was improved, and a non-interactive mode was added.

CreditSuite is a suite of libraries that aims to provide an open source analytics and trading/valuation system solution suite for credit and fixed income products. To this end, it implements its functionality over three main libraries - CreditProduct, CreditAnalytics, and RegressionSuite.